Paper Info
Title
The proof of concept of a shadow robotic system for independent living at home
Abstract
In the framework of the EU funded SRS (Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for independent Living) project, an innovative semi autonomous service robot is under development with the aim to support frail elderly people at their home. This paper reports about the user validation of the SRS concept involving 63 potential users of the system coming from Italy, Germany and Spain: in particular they were frail elderly people, their relatives and 24 hour telecare professionals. Results confirmed that monitoring and managing emergency situations as well as helping with reaching, fetching and carrying objects that are too heavy or positioned in unreachable places are the tasks for which a robot is better accepted to address users' needs. To support the scenarios executions and operation modes, the interaction concept should provide three different interaction devices and modalities for each user group.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_96
ICCHP (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
potential user,shadow robotic system,user validation,multi-role shadow robotic system,frail elderly people,interaction concept,srs concept,independent living,user group,hour telecare professional,emergency situation,different interaction device,user requirements,user centered design
Modalities,Computer science,Telecare,Proof of concept,Robot,Multimedia,Independent living,User requirements document,User-centered design,Service robot
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7382
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucia Pigini1122.44
David Facal2182.73
Alvaro Garcia320.36
Michael Burmester447771.53
Renzo Andrich5134.20